View .svg files as text in Xcode?

Question

I use xcode for my editing environment. I'm editing a few .svg files on a project, and I need xcode to open the files as text. Rather, it renders the documents as svg. While I appreciate how this helps most of the time (working and view svg's as such) its a hinderance to me right now.

Does anyone know how to tell xcode to treat a .svg file as regular text?

Answer 1

It doesn't appear you can view source for .svg in Xcode, I'd suggest using something like vim or TextEdit.app, both of which are built-in to your system.

Answer 2

In reply to mojuba and using the file inspector, I'm not sure this is what makes the difference but I have Location set to 'Relative to Workspace' (my workspace file and source files are in the same directory) and the settings do survive restarting Xcode. I'm using Xcode 4.2.1.

Answer 3

There is a simple way of changing the editor for any file type, particularly SVG in Xcode 5 (I believe this was possible in previous versions too):

1. Right click on the file in your Project Navigator, choose "Show File Inspector"
2. In File Inspector change the Type field to, for example, XML:

You will have to do it for each SVG file though. Seeing the graphical preview of your SVG is still possible via right click in Project Navigator -> Open As -> Preview.

Answer 4

Renaming to .xml (make sure Finder isn't hiding the real extension by editing the name in the info panel) did work for me — in my case the SVG wasn't part of a project and so @mojumba's trick did not work.